Article

Revisiting Mexicali

01/03/1991

Article

Authors:

Thomas Fisher

Published in:

Progressive Architecture, Vol. 68, No. 3, pp. 79-81

Publisher:

Penton Publishing, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.

Contents

Correspondence

Low-Cost Houses for Mexicali: Requesting specific photographs from the book "The Production of Houses", to be used in an article performing a "revisit" to the Mexicali project, with a re-evaluating approach, for the Progressive Architecture magazine. Also asking if Christopher Alexander would be interested to write a short piece to be included as well 15/01/1991

Article Publication, Request for Contribution

Sender:

Thomas Fisher, Progressive Architecture, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.

Recipient:

Marian Wattman Oshima, Center for Environmental Structure , Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Fax

Records

"Alexander/Fisher Revisiting Mexicali": Original text of article 01/04/1991

Article Publication, Original Text

Authors:

Thomas Fisher, Progressive Architecture, New York, NY, U.S.A.

4-page final version original text of the article “Revisiting Mexicali”, published in Progressive Architecture.

References

Projects

Low Cost Houses for Mexicali 1975 to 1977

Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico

Low Cost Housing, Realized , Construction completed in 1977

Client:

Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexicali - Mr. Jorge Nunez, Director of the School of Architecture

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Julio Martinez, Howard Davis, Donald Corner, students and families

Contractor:

Built by the families and local subcontractors under the management of the Center for Environmental Structure

Sponsor:

University of Baja California

Project cost:

$70,000

Project stages:

Pattern language for the project by C.E.S. Layout on the ground by clients and C.E.S. Preliminary Design drawings done after layout Direct Construction management along with on-site design decisions Budget and subcontractors under C.E.S. control Users in

A cluster of houses for large families, with a builders yard, built by the families themselves with the help of students from the Universidad Autonoma of Mexico, and a team of builders from the Center for Environmental Structure. Each house ...

Public Events

Thomas Fisher Interviews Christopher Alexander 01/03/1991

U.S.A.

Interview

Interviewed by:

Thomas Fisher

Interview by architect Thomas Fisher, Professor & Director of the Minnesota Design Center, formerly Editorial Director of Progressive Architecture magazine; published in “Progressive Architecture” in the March 1991 issue, under the title “Revisiting Mexicali”, in which Christopher Alexander discusses the ...